About the Organization
Join the ICHS Team!! International Community Health Services (ICHS) is accepting applications for Family Practice Physicians, with or without OB, who are board certified or board eligible. ICHS is a non-profit federally qualified health center providing care for Asian and Pacific Islander (API) populations and the broader community in Seattle and King County in WA State. Currently ICHS operates 13 medical and dental clinics: The International District Medical and Dental Clinic located in Seattles International District, the Vision Clinic in Seattle, the Legacy House in Seattle, Holly Park Medical and Dental Clinic located in South Seattle, the Bellevue Medical and Dental Clinic located Bellevue, the Shoreline Medical and Dental Clinic located in Shoreline, Seattle World School Teen Health Center in Seattle, Highland Middle School Health Center in Bellevue, the Meal Program at Bush Asia Center in Seattle, the Primary Care Clinic at ACRS in Seattle and our Mobile Dental Clinic. These clinics function as one-Stop shops for patients who can access primary medical, dental, behavioral health, alternative medicine, pharmacy, laboratory, health education and other services at each site.
Benefits we offer based on FTE
Eligible for $10,000 Sign-On Bonus
Competitive salary for the Seattle/Puget Sound region
Share the success bonuses
Insurance premiums 100% paid by ICHS
Paid time off accrual up to 200 hours annually with up to 320 hours rollover year to year
Automatic 4% retirement contribution
9 paid holidays a year, including 2 personal holidays
Reimbursement for professional licensure
Please send your CV to: International Community Health Services, Human Resources Attn: Frank Babb, P O Box 3007, Seattle, WA 98114-3007 Or Email: employment@ichs.com Or FAX: 206-529-3248
About the Community
Today, ICHS provides care to thousands of patients each year at 13 locations throughout the region, but its journey started in very humble circumstances five decades ago. ICHS history is a story of the love, caring, commitment and compassion that residents have for their community and for each other.
In the early 1970s, low-income Asian immigrants in Seattles Chinatown had no options when they needed a doctor who spoke their language. The Pioneer Square Neighborhood Health Station was the only community clinic in the area but it was too far for many elderly Chinese and Filipinos to reach by foot.
With the construction of Interstate 5 in the 1960s, and the Kingdome stadium threatening to uproot homes and businesses in the area in the 1970s, Chinatown seemed like an unlikely place to launch a medical practice. But in 1973, a group of dedicated community advocates, including Sister Heide Parreo, Bruce Miyahara, Bob Santos and many others, brought culturally-appropriate medical services close to the neighborhood.
Dr. Eugene Ko, who owned the Jefferson Park Clinic in Beacon Hill, donated space for the advocates to establish the Asian Community Health Clinic. It would become the site for in-language health care for mainly elderly Chinese and Filipino patients living in surrounding area single room occupancy hotels. Volunteer doctors, interpreters and mental health staff operated the Asian Community Health Clinic from the Jefferson Park Clinic on Tuesday nights and eventually on Saturday mornings.
In 1975, the Asian Community Health Clinic moved to Chinatown and the International District (ID) Community Health Center was born. The ID Clinic, as many still call it, was the first of its kind in the nation to serve a mainly Asian population at one location.
In 1996, the ID Clinic expanded to South Seattle. The clinic took on a new name International Community Health Services (ICHS) to reflect a second location, the Holly Park Medical & Dental Clinic, and the increasing number of patients.
The Holly Park site quickly drew more patients. By 2003, ICHS realized the need for a larger facility. The construction of light rail forced an early move for the clinic. In early 2005, ICHS opened the doors to its new Holly Park clinic on South Othello Street, blocks from the old location.
Since then, the number of patients has grown, especially during the Great Recession. The number of languages spoken in the Puget Sound region soared. ICHS reflects that. Each year, ICHS offers quality and affordable services including medical, dental, vision, behavioral health, pharmacy, outreach and healthy living assistance in more than 70 languages and dialects.
In 2014, ICHS experienced unprecedented growth as it opened the Bellevue Medical and Dental Clinic in the populous Crossroads neighborhood, and the Shoreline Medical and Dental along the busy Aurora Avenue corridor. The opening of Bellevue and Shoreline medical and dental clinics culminated a years-long